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  • Touching the Sky
    Inkjet Print on Fine Art Paper
    16.5" x 21.5"

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Mari MinegishiMari Minegishi

Mari Minegishi

Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography
April 14 - May 5, 2009 Reception: Thursday April 16, 2009 6-8 PM

Press Release

Mari Minegishi uses nature to explore themes of place, placement and placelessness in strikingly honest images that are at once simplistic and deeply meditative. Minegishi has developed a multi-layered approach to an understanding of her medium, which informs her individual work as well as her continuously developing style: "Photography is communication, expression, suggestion, interpretation, understanding. Introspection, thinking, feeling, remembering, forgetting. Connection and imagination. Photography gives and demands. It comes and goes, loses and finds. I open my eyes, to see more, to see less. It asks questions, drops hints, directs…" Indeed, Minegishi plays a subtle game with her viewer in every work, revealing a unique glimpse of light bouncing off of an object in nature but hiding any indication of its place in the world. As she conveys her presence as a viewer but maintains her distance as a photographer, she urges the viewer to meditate on presence over place and placelessness over certainty.

Artist Statement

Photography is communication, expression, suggestion, interpretation, understanding, introspection, thinking, feeling, remembering, forgetting, connection and imagination. Photography gives and demands. It comes and goes, loses and finds. I open my eyes to see more, to see less. It asks questions, drops hints and shows directions. My photographic style is slowly taking form, but it is an open book. Most pages are still blank. I had a dream a few months ago in which I was shown many images. If they were to be made by me, I should be venturing into new territory. Who knows? I secretly hope that's the case, as they were great images!



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Touching the SkyThe City #11X Performance Le Loi Saigon, Street Level II, 2007FusionnalsStairway to H (New York)GalleriesFrozen Love AttemptDark AgeIntrospectio #14LiliaceaeMistDried Brown Flowers with Green Leaves 4 (Edition of One)ModaFabric Delusion 3Train 02SoHo 4LightDigital CityKitchen WorksNaxosIn the Absence of RulesSnail CallRed Flutes and Brown CurvesForm in Water (Triptych)Wanna Play

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